VINCENT MOREAU
I would earn the name 'The Spider' three years after that, when I turned twenty.
It was mostly because I learned the one thing my father did not. To kill. The test of the story was because of something I did, something that brought my name to the Parisian slums.
One lesson I learned just as early was that people liked smart people. When you did things that would ordinarily not come to their minds, they liked you and lived in admiration of you. For the gangs, they thought I was smart because I knew everything about everybody. I knew who was plotting to kill his boss. I knew who had done something to attract the Police. I knew who was sleeping with who's woman. I knew who was going to die next.
It made me highly covered, indeed, and in danger of death all the time. They
